Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans

The work of Brussels based artists Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans is recognized for its innovative artistic concepts and has a long-standing relationship with architecture. For over a decade Vermeir & Heiremans have realized acclaimed projects nationally and internationally. Their work has been presented in New York, London, Montreal. At the 10th Istanbul Biennial in 2007 they presented A.I.R extension#10. Since 2006 both artists have been developing A.I.R, a collaborative research project that examines architecture, and domestic architecture in particular, as an ideological gesture. “The Good Life” is part of the A.I.R project. The beneficiaries of numerous grants (Pollock-Krasner, Flanders Image, …), Vermeir & Heiremans have participated in artist residency programs in P.S.1, New York, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, a.o. In September 2009 they will take up residency in Xiamen, China.
See also: www.in-residence.be

51N4E

The name references the coordinates of Brussels. 51N4E is a prize winning international practice that concerns itself with matters of space production i.e. architecture, urbanism, design and spatial analysis. The office is lead by 3 partners: Johan Anrys, Freek Persyn and Peter Swinnen. 51N4E was founded in 1998 and gained renown through key projects such as Lamot (2005), Groeningemuseum (2002), TID Tower Tirana (2004/08) and C-Mine (2006/09). In 2004 the practice was rewarded the prestigious Rotterdam Maaskant Award for Young Architects. Recently 51N4E has won the international competition for the rehabilitation of Scanderbeg Square, Tirana (Al).
See also: www.51N4E.com

Justin Bennett

In his work sound artist Justin Bennett charts the noise with which we are surrounded daily. Bennett grew up in the UK, but came to the Netherlands in the late eighties to study at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and a continuation study at the Jan van Eyck academy in Maastricht. His is an uncompromising journey through spaces made of noise and times made of sound-dynamics. Best known for his work with field recordings, Bennett developed Shot Gun Architecture # 3, a soundscape for the video The Good Life (a guided tour), which also accompanies you on a tour through the Arnolfini building.
http://this.is/justin
http://this.is/bmbcon
http://spore.soundscaper.com

Amir Borenstein

A camera man, editor and a 2D motion graphic artist Amir Borenstein graduated from The Sandberg Institute (MFA) in New Media. His extensive experience in video production and post production includes the initiation of an independent TV program as well as numerous short films, video art projects, publicities and the conducting of intensive video production workshops with young people around the world initiated by the One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam, in collaboration with ECF (European Culture Foundation) and UNICEF. Amir Borenstein is part of the artist duo Effi & Amir that has been working together since 1999.
See also: www.effiandamir.net

Mieja Hollevoet

Starting out as a fashion designer, Mieja Hollevoet shifted her practice early in her career and became a costume designer for theatre. From there she took it a step further and started directing and writing her own plays. Her approach has proven very successful, resulting in the price-winning adaptation of Cinderella, which was awarded the ‘1000 Watt -Best Play’ price in 2002. For the video The Good Life (a guided tour) she developed a costume design based on the concept of ‘inattentional blindness’.
See also: www.vti.be/?q=node/7208

Pierre Huyghebaert

Pierre Huyghebaert runs his own studio Speculoos, together with book designer Alexia de Visscher. They share Speculoos as a structure dedicated to the development of specialized but eclectic projects in such fields as web interface, cartography, type design and stage design. With the Open Source Publishing team, he developed research projects, talks and workshops in Germany, Poland, UK and France on the reappropriation of the designer tools by the designers. For The Good Life branding his studio proved unrivaled in visually framing the concept of the artwork.
See also: www.ospublish.constantvzw.org

Eric Jooris

Graduate in law of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Postgraduate LLM Intellectual property law at the University of London, he has been enlisted at the Brussels Bar since 1995. Next to teaching copyright as a guest lecturer at the Institut Cooremans in Brussels and being an assistant at the Law Faculty of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he is also teaching Intellectual Property rights in the Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising course of the Solvay Business School. He is the author of a codex « Droit d'auteur, droits voisins et droits connexes » published in 2002 by Larcier. Jooris is Attorney & Managing Partner at Jooris - Van Melkebeke – Leduc, a firm that specialises in the field of intellectual property law and that has built specific expertise in copyright, media law, art and culture law as well as unfair competition at Belgian, European and international levels.
See also: www.jvm.be

Carly Wijs

Acting as real estate agent for this exclusive project, she personifies the creator and innovator of many trends in real estate marketing. Her character is most celebrated for the way she has been able to create value by merging the worlds of art and architecture, something she brilliantly achieved for The Good Life. Carly’s portfolio contains a curated collection of the world’s most desirable new addresses.
See also: www.vti.be/node/6646